Popular Culture category: 4839 books
by Richard W. Etulain
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Western fans today may not recognize the name Ernest Haycox (1899–1950), but they know his work. John Ford turned one of his stories into the iconic film Stagecoach, and the whole Western literary genre still follows conventions that Haycox deftly mastered and reshaped. In this new book about Haycox’s...
The Bad Sixties
Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Studies Division of the National Communication Association
Ongoing interest in the turmoil of the 1960s clearly demonstrates how these social conflicts continue to affect contemporary politics. In The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture,...
I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Despite the presence of the Flaming Lips in a commercial for a copier and Iggy Pop’s music in luxury cruise advertisements, Jeffrey T. Nealon argues that popular music has not exactly been co-opted in the American capitalist present. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism has, in fact, found a central...
by Theodor W. Adorno
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Intellettuale tra i più importanti del Novecento, sociologo, filosofo, musicologo, Theodor W. Adorno è stato figura centrale della cosidetta Scuola di Francoforte. Scritto durante l'esilio americano, e pubblicato nel 1941, il saggio Sulla Popular Music offre un'analisi brillante e ancora oggi sorprendente...
I Wear the Black Hat
Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
One-of-a-kind cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman “offers up great facts, interesting cultural insights, and thought-provoking moral calculations in this look at our love affair with the anti-hero” (New York magazine).
Chuck Klosterman, “The Ethicist”...
Ranting Out Loud
Life, Pop Culture & How We Sometimes Don’t Get Along
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
In his debut essay collection, Nicholas Belardes uses today’s pop culture and self-deprecating humor as a filter for discussing personal stories of family, writing, gender, art, and race. He dives into the Harry Potter play and discusses his cursed childhood home. He tells coming-of-age tales of Dungeons...
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, And Real Cool Cats
Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats is the first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behaviour,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
The 1950s and 1960s were a key moment in the development of postwar France. The period was one of rapid change, derived from post-World War II economic and social modernization; yet many traditional characteristics were retained. By analyzing the eruption of the new postwar world in the context of...
by Doug Palladini
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
A celebration, chronicle, and must-have for Vans sneakers fans, Vans: Off the Wall offers vivid photography and the compelling story of a casual canvas shoe and a DIY spirit that helped turn pop culture inside out. This updated edition, published to coincide with the brand’s 50th anniversary,...
The Entertainment Economy
How Mega-Media Forces Are Transforming Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Every so often an author explains our culture in such a new and original way that from that day on we see the world around us in a new light. From Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan through Nicholas Negroponte's Being Digital. the books that have shown us the clearest vision of the future have...
Enter the Babylon System
Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
A docu-style investigation of our fascination with the gun, from the perspective of the hip-hop generation.
The 2003 shooting death of Toronto community-centre worker Kempton Howard put the spotlight on hip hop’s fixation with guns. Media and police soon blamed rap music and its tales of...
We Ate All the Pies
How Football Swallowed Britain Whole
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
In Who Ate All the Pies?, the gonzo sports journalist explores and celebrates the things we love about the whole culture of the game, tries to explain how we got to where we are now and speculates where we the game is headed. Amongst other things, he explores the history of the football shirt in style...
The Cheating Culture
Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
You're standing at an ATM. It can't access account information but allows unlimited withdrawals. Do you take more than your balance? David Callahan thinks most of us would. While there have always been those who cut corners, he shows that cheating on every level—from the highly publicized corporate...
Arts, Inc.
How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2008
In this impassioned and persuasive book, Bill Ivey, the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, assesses the current state of the arts in America and finds cause for alarm. Even as he celebrates our ever-emerging culture and the way it enriches our lives here at home while spreading...